after a breakup

The commute home will be joyful, you’ll see the people around you with fresh eyes and you won’t dread coming home. Songs will start to take on a new meaning again, and you can get through that playlist without tears pricking your eyes.

“I stopped actually trying to get the upper hand. I’m not sure if objectively that means I got the upper hand, but subjectively it does. I stopped obsessing over him and what he was doing compared to me. And instead focused on my own life without him in it. To me, that’s getting the upper hand, even if it’s totally subjective and unrelated to him.”